Events
Celebrating Notations at the Kemper Art Museum
September
Fall 2012 Opening Celebration
September 14, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 6-8PM
This public reception is an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy the Museum’s special exhibitions: Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, and Ways of Seeing the City.
Artist Conversations—Notations
September 15, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 1PM
Meredith Malone, associate curator, will host a gallery walkthrough of Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process with artists N. Dash and Christine Hiebert.
Film Screening—Notations
September 22, 2012
Steinberg Auditorium, 1PM
This film screening presents the works of four artists featured in Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process. The featured films are: Mirrors (1969) and Wisconsin (1969), directed by Robert Morris; Swamp (1971), directed by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson; Railroad Turnbridge (1976), directed by Richard Serra; and Sun Tunnels (1978), directed by Nancy Holt.
From Process to Public Space: Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd
September 29, 2012
Starts at Kemper Art Museum, 1-2PM
This collaborative program between the Kemper Art Museum and Laumeier Sculpture Park explores the works of artists associated with Minimalism, including Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd, featured in Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process and exhibited at Laumeier.
Registration is required for this workshop; contact Allison Taylor at 314.935.7918 or allison.taylor@wustl.edu.
October
Making Your Mark: Exploring Process in Contemporary Drawing
October 3, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 7-9PM
Join local artists and educators Tom and Lori Hunt for an adult art workshop that explores contemporary drawing in conjunction with the exhibition Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process.
The Practice of Drawing: Then and Now
October 24, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 10-Noon
This four‐part seminar examines the practice of drawing from the Renaissance to today with connections to Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process at the Kemper Art Museum.
Registration is required at www.slam.org/Education or 314.655.5437.
The Practice of Drawing: Then and Now
October 31, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 10-Noon
This four‐part seminar examines the practice of drawing from the Renaissance to today with connections to Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process at the Kemper Art Museum.
Registration is required at www.slam.org/Education or 314.655.5437.
Friday Nights at the Kemper: October
October 26, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 6PM
Friday Nights at the Kemper offer an evening of free gallery talks, live music, and movie screenings for Museum members, friends, and the general public.
6PM Live music by Beth Bombara
7PM Gallery talk by Jennifer Padgett, PhD student in the Department of Art History & Archaeology, on Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process
8PM Film screening of Gabriel (1976) by Agnes Martin in Steinberg Auditorium.
November
The Practice of Drawing: Then and Now
November 7, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 10-Noon
This four‐part seminar examines the practice of drawing from the Renaissance to today with connections to Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process at the Kemper Art Museum.
Registration is required at www.slam.org/Education or 314.655.5437.
Lecture: Anne Rorimer
November 7, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 6:30PM
Steinberg Auditorium
Anne Rorimer, a freelance curator and independent scholar specializing in American and European art after 1965, will deliver a lecture titled Drawing the Line Between Art and Reality: Proposals, Progressions, and Processes in Minimal, Postminimal, and Conceptual Art as part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series. Her talk will focus on specific works in the exhibition Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, and will address major issues in innovative art practice in the 1960s and 1970s. Her 6:30p lecture will be preceeded by a 6p reception in the atrium of the Kemper Art Museum.
Rorimer was formerly a curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. With Ann Goldstein she organized the exhibition Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965‐1975, held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1995 and 1996. She has published in scholarly art journals, including Artforum and October, and exhibition catalogues and is the author of New Art in the Sixties and Seventies: Redefining Reality (Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2001/2004).
The Practice of Drawing: Then and Now
November 14, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 10-Noon
This four‐part seminar examines the practice of drawing from the Renaissance to today with connections to Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process at the Kemper Art Museum.
Registration is required at www.slam.org/Education or 314.655.5437.
Allison Strafella On Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process
November 14, 2012
Kemper Art Museum, 5PM
Allyson Strafella discusses her work in the context of Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process.
